Oops, Paul is probably right. I thought urllib2 opened local files in the absence of an identifier like "http://". Bad assumption on my part. I remembered that behavior from somewhere else, maybe urllib.
The following function could be useful here - I got it from Dive Into Python - http://diveintopython.org/scripts_and_streams/index.html#kgp.openanything
It tries to open a file with urllib, and if that fails it uses open():
def openAnything(source):
# try to open with urllib (if source is http, ftp, or file URL)
import urllib
try:
return urllib.urlopen
(source)
except (IOError, OSError):
pass
# try to open with native open function (if source is pathname)
try :
return open(source)
except (IOError, OSError):
pass
# treat source as string
import StringIO
return StringIO.StringIO(str(source))
Olly
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